President Trump is making good with another one of his campaign promises by appointing a commission to study voter fraud, and that's just fine with the head of the Bexar County Elections department.
"I'm not afraid to have the light shown on us. I'm really not," Jacque Callanen tells Newsradio 1200 WOAI. "I think it would be a wonderful opportunity for us to shine."
This week's Executive Order sets up a commission to review allegations of voter fraud and voter suppression. It will also investigate the urban legend of dead people rising from the grave to cast a ballot.
Callanen says that was something a similar commission studied back in 2008.
"And they found that there were people who had been deceased who were on the voter roll. Well, they hadn’t voted. But it was perception," she explains.
Starting on the campaign trail President Trump has made unfounded claims about rampant voter fraud. Even after being elected, he claimed that improper votes cost him the popular vote.
"In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally," he posted on Twitter
.The commission doesn’t sit well with the head of the Brennan Center, which was one of the groups that sued over Texas's Voter ID law.
President Michael Waldman called it a sham and a distraction.“
It’s simply an effort to try and find proof of the president’s absurd claim that 3-5 million people voted illegally in November. It tries to pivot from the fact that this week Trump fired the chief law enforcement officer in charge of probing whether his advisors colluded with Russia to influence our elections," he said in a statement.
Last week, the Center released a report that looked at information from local election administrators in jurisdictions with the highest populations of noncitizens. Of the 23.5 million votes tabulated in the areas surveyed, election officials referred an estimated 30 incidents of suspected noncitizen voting for further prosecution or investigation, representing 0.0001 percent of the votes cast.